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[Kincard]

they said they shorted the duration of embrava and pd because it's no longer a two hour ability

When have they ever, ever said this? The only reason embrava and PD were ever nerfed were because they were ridiculously powerful. You obviously have no idea what you are talking about. The abilities are balanced based around the idea that you can only use them once (and twice if you're really stretching) per event, barring using special abilities and revitalizers that come from that event itself. The timer was shortened because of they way they are now designing their events (With the intension that you won't play them long enough to get more than one use out of the SP ability), it has nothing to do with an ability's timer affecting it's potency or whatever the hell it is you are trying to make up.

If they wanted to implement "I win" buttons on a 24 hours timer they would've done that.

[Concerned4FFxi]

When have they ever, ever said this?

In the very orginal posting about the nerf, the director went to great lengths to explain why it was done. In it he cited these reasons for the nerf:

1. the abilities were already better than most other two hrs, the player base was abusing it to clear content and become dependant on it instead of coming up with alternative play styles, so it warranted change to the formula themselves, e.i. refresh and not regain for embrava.

2. all 2hrs were gonna be one hour, so the duration of PD and embrava were adjusted because of this

I think you guys need to understand there was two seperate reason for the nerf, and each reason contributed differently to said nerf. the length of the abilities themselves were reduced because they were now a 1 hour ability. The effects of the abilities were changed because they were overpowered.

I am asking that the length of all 1hour abilies be returned to two hours and increase the duration (in the case of PD and embrava) and other two hours get some sort of balanced boost, instead of taking the easy way out which is what SE did and will continue to do, and insteaad of buffing 20 1/2hr abiliies they just gimped these two, so that the other 20 jobs can live.

As for embrava, it's like the defense/attack ratio change. i support change, I just don't support using a missile to kill a sniper!

[Kincard]

2. all 2hrs were gonna be one hour, so the duration of PD and embrava were adjusted because of this

You may want to consider the next time you paraphrase something someone said that you make sure that it's something they actually said, otherwise you just destroy your credibility on any kind of sensible point you might have had buried somewhere deep inside your posts.

[Economizer]